I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Quotations
Music
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
